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Chapter 232 - 35 Spider Monkey, Night Watchman, Traveling the World! (Request for Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 232: Chapter 35 Spider Monkey, Night Watchman, Traveling the World! (Request for Monthly Tickets)

This defiant slash naturally shattered the statue of the Evil God, which aside from its malevolent appearance, had nothing special about it.

It looked terrifying, but essentially it was made of clay, so it directly shattered into pieces all over the ground.

Watching the scene in front of him, where the soldiers carefully approached to clean up the broken pieces, Xu Shu couldn’t help but smile wryly.

Scared to death!

"I thought it would have defenses like the Narrow Sleeve Guanyin, something like a Primordial Spirit. Turns out, it’s just a clay model? Useless."

"However, this Qingcheng Sect actually worships a statue of an Evil God... Could this be related to the yin ghosts?"

"Is this Seven-eyed Evil Ghost Statue possibly the so-called Ghost Ancestor, Jiaye Luo?"

"Hehe, the mystery behind this legendary event is about to be unraveled by me."

"I already have two ’Heavenly Defiance’ ratings in hand, so I’m not worried about rewards, I can at least obtain an Epic level Mark Altar, but exploring the real truth behind these yin ghosts is quite interesting."

"I wonder what kind of creature it actually is."

Judging from Gu Huoniao, first of all, they are not complete ’Yin Gods’ because these yin ghosts have complete physical bodies.

Xu Shu was certain of this; Gu Huoniao and the Yin God·Desire: Black Silk Lady he once subdued inside the ’Record Player Guanyin Statue’ were completely different.

The latter was a true ’ghost’ form, although it felt like it had a physical body, it was essentially an ’energy body’ and ice-cold.

But Gu Huoniao, she’s made of real flesh and blood! Her blood is hot, warm and soft—not the cold body of a corpse.

"A yin ghost? Let me pull off your mask and see how many faces you really have!"

Xu Shu chuckled.

With no worries about ratings, he could now more honorably follow his own heart and earnestly make his moves in this legend!

——

[Your legend continues...]

[As sculpture stones roll around on the ground, you step aside to avoid the crowd, pat the blood coffin at your back, hear a ’gurgle’ from inside, then you open a slit for her to watch the scene, and ask her, "Do you know what this is?"]

["Gurgle, it’s a Ghost Ancestor statue! My lord, please be careful. This place worships the Ghost Ancestor; there must have been many yin ghosts here praying to the Ghost Ancestor, seeking to enhance the power of the blood ghosts," Gu Huoniao warns you without hiding anything. This kind of loyalty is true love.]

["Really Jiaye Luo? So, the Qingcheng Sect secretly breeding evil spirits, truly wicked. Hmm, I guess I’m not exactly breeding Gu Huoniao, am I? After all, I not only forbid her from eating people, but I’m also eating her, so these can’t be equated," you muse and then add, "Give me some chicken broth to drink today."]

[Gu Huoniao is shocked: "Today? But it was just... Gurgle~ My lord is naughty, you can’t do this! If you do it every day, it will exhaust me~ I’ll agree for today, but you have to let me rest more in the future. I won’t harm people in the future; I need to absorb the essence of the moon to recover."]

[Despicable lovers, a heated affair, truly deserving death! If she dies by your hands one day, will she feel betrayed by you?]

[While speaking, suddenly a soldier shouts, "Lord, there’s a secret tunnel here, the entrance is full of cracks and covered in bloodstains!"]

["A secret tunnel?" Wen Ren Xiong Zhao goes to examine and finds that the statue’s base can be moved; everyone just didn’t find the switch initially. After you smashed it, cleaning up the area, it became exposed.]

["Break it open!" At your command, the soldiers find hammers and start demolishing. The stone door is thick; it takes an afternoon of labor to finally break in. Remember to pay the soldiers.]

[Upon entering, you find a nightmarish scene with limbs and body parts everywhere with clear bite marks, akin to a large slaughterhouse. Much of the blood has left indelible stains, and it’s unknown how many people were harmed here.]

[Gag~ Although the soldiers are experienced and have seen many scenes, they have never seen anything like this; the extreme stench of blood overwhelms everyone, causing them to vomit.]

["Beasts." As a fellow being, seeing this scene naturally fills you with deep hatred towards the yin ghosts.]

["Do you know where the yin ghosts gather?" you ask Gu Huoniao.]

[She honestly answers, "My lord, yin ghosts hide during the day and stealthily go out at night to hunt humans for food. They rest in the day and move at night, dislike gathering, and are quite scattered. Additionally, among humans, there are specialized Ghost Slayer Warriors, so ordinary yin ghosts wouldn’t brazenly enter human cities."]

["Ghost Slayer Warriors? Are they night watchmen?" you glance at Wen Ren Xiong Zhao, who frowns tightly seeing the evil spirits’ slaughterhouse, thinking that indeed the peace in the shadows of this world is guarded by night watchmen. But how do they kill yin ghosts?]

[These indestructible creatures are mostly overcome by sheer numbers, combined with Taoist methods like talismans for long-range attacks, dragging them into daylight to be scorched by the sun. You guess so.]

[Wen Ren Xiong Zhao comes over, looks at your blood coffin and says, "My lord, great peril lies here!"]

[You calmly close the blood coffin, hiding the 36D Gu Huoniao: "What do you mean?"]

"Let’s talk when we get back..." As Xu Shu’s words fell, suddenly a chilling wind howled, and the sky outside darkened as clouds covered the moon.

"Not good! It took too long to break down the door, and the sun has already set!" Xu Shu’s face changed.

At that moment, various roars resounded across Qingcheng Mountain, and in the dark forest ahead, pairs of blood-red eyes lit up, staring menacingly at you.

This eerie scene terrified the two to three hundred soldiers you had brought with you, and they trembled as they muttered things like "It’s over, the cannibalistic evil spirits have come."

"Everyone, retreat! Follow me!" Xu Shu knew he could not delay any longer, and he had been too careless. He should have realized sooner that aside from yin ghosts, what other assassin specifically targets the heart?

The reputation of the Qingcheng Sect in Jianghu was indeed notable, usually assisting the night watchmen on the periphery, which is why he was kept in the dark.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, a giant black-furred monster, over four meters tall, stepped out of the dark forest. It had arms like an ape and a body like a bear, with bizarre compound eyes on its belly, looking ferocious and terrifying.

Its muscles were grotesquely exaggerated and it wore some torn Taoist robes, and its twisted face still vaguely showed the contours of a human face, sarcastically saying, "Ha, the damn court coming to mess in my house, none of you will leave alive!"

Xu Shu’s expression darkened, "Qingcheng Sect’s Yu Sangtian? You’ve actually become a yin ghost!"

"Hey, boys, eat them!"

At his command, the yin ghosts in the forest surged forward. There were more than a dozen of them, each moving as fast as the wind and as strong as a first-rank martial artist, and among them, four were particularly formidable—they were once known as the ’heroic beasts’ of Qingcheng!

Like tigers among sheep, the dozen monsters flew about, grabbing and killing. Their bodies, undying, could be split in two by the resisting soldiers and still fight separately, slaughtering over two hundred soldiers into disarray.

"Young master, I have failed in my duty. Please protect yourself! Run!" Saying this, Xu Shu drew his twin blades and charged forward, clashing with the strongest among them, Yu Sangtian.

His blades danced furiously, sparks flying in a fierce exchange that was evenly matched. Watching Xu Shu’s style, you were stunned, "He’s not a Taoist, but an ordinary martial artist at the second-stage late!"

This placed you in a dilemma. While Xu Shu’s second-rank strength was considerable, being merely a ’Weapon Master’ would result in a situation like the one you faced with Gu Huoniao before: you could hold off for a while, but couldn’t kill the enemy, and he would wear you down to death.

Dozens of soldiers had already fallen. You drew your sword and with a powerful slash, cut two yin ghosts into eight pieces, but before the soldiers you rescued could cheer, the eight parts of these ghosts fought separately, killing even faster.

"Young master, we should retreat. I wondered who it was—it turns out to be the newly appointed Lower Waning Sixth Spider Ape. In my eyes, this trash has only average power, but we all have undying bodies, so we can’t do anything to each other here without a night watchman; they can’t be killed at night!" Gu Huoniao hurriedly explained to you.

Hearing this, you were stunned, "What does that mean? Does it mean that with a night watchman, they could be killed at night?"

In that moment of hesitation, flames suddenly erupted ahead.

"Seal—open!"

Xu Shu fiercely struck the bronze gong on his chest. Ding! His entire robe ignited from feet to head, transforming like the Evil Spirit Knight. His blades glowed red-hot, magma dissolved, and red Sanskrit scripts engraved into his robe shone brightly.

His fiery hair surged up, and as if the Fire God had descended, Xu Shu crossed his blades, executing the Cross Meteor Slash.

In a flash mixed with flames, a roaring inferno surged forward, followed only then by a thunderous roar that shook the night—

"Flames devour all! Ring of flame burst!"

The gushing flames instantly engulfed everything, and in the massive explosion, the entire forest burned, the Spider Ape’s screams gradually weakening.

Everyone was stunned; even Gu Huoniao in the blood coffin behind you couldn’t help but exclaim, "Guh! A Fire Department walker?!"

Seeing this, the other yin ghosts panicked and fled as if sensing their leader’s dire situation.

Seizing the moment, you captured one, but too many were beyond your control. While holding down one of the Qingcheng beasts, you asked, "A Fire Department walker? What is that?"

"Young master, the night watchman is divided into the Ghost-Slaying Eight Divisions, including heaven, earth, mountain, marsh, water, fire, wind, and thunder... He’s coming! I’ll explain later; if he finds out, I’ll die, guh!" Gu Huoniao retreated.

Before long, Xu Shu, who had reverted to his normal human form and was still steaming, returned, carrying the huge bear-headed corpse, which he threw on the ground.

"No...impossible... The Ghost Ancestor had protected me... How could I die...ah, Master, you’ve come to fetch me..." Spider Ape Yu Sangtian’s eyes were bewildered, recalling the miserable lessons from begging in ditches as a child, the painful helplessness when the woman he admired married another, the righteousness when he became the Sect Leader, the fear when he was transformed into a yin ghost by pollution, and the bloody desire that surged as he killed and ate countless people...

His life flashed before his eyes like a revolving lantern, turning completely to ashes, leaving behind the bodies of over a hundred soldiers.

Seeing the yin ghost you captured, Xu Shu immediately chopped off its limbs with a smooth strike, and this ghost didn’t regenerate but turned to ashes instead, surprising you.

"Young master, I was incapable and miscalculated, leading to so many deaths..."

"Ah, cut the chatter; let’s head back to the ship!" you interjected.

Without even a moment to mourn the fallen soldiers, you returned to your treasure ship. While eating dinner, you knocked on the table three times, tap, tap, tap. Xu Shu immediately understood...